Sunday, September 16, 2007

Did Mayor Dale set up another Brown Act violation? And worse yet, is he violating the Governor's code of confidentiality?

Did Barstow Mayor Lawernce Dale lead his council colleagues and city staff into a Brown Act violation when he arranged a meeting for City leaders with Governor Schwarzenegger's aide Cynthia Bryant while supposedly at a League of Cities Conference in Sacramento?

While on a boondoggle to Sacramento, the Mayor and various other Barstow city officials took advantage of being in Sacramento to lobby various state officials for the Barwest gaming compacts which parties had been told a week or two earlier were virtually dead for the 2007 legislative session.

Now, by nature of an agenda item (#31) on the Council's Monday night agenda (9/17/07) , it appears as though the Mayor is attempting to "cure" a Brown Act violation before anyone can inform the District Attorney or Attorney General of the Council's illegal actions.

Further, the item appears to be yet another of the BarWest propoganda machine's missives put forth by Mayor Dale aiming to protect his political hind end.

Given the confidential nature of discussions between the Governor's office and those seeking gaming compacts either the Mayor is blatanltly violating rules preferred by the Governor's office or manufacturing his version of the truth. Violating the Governor's code of confidentiality doesn't seem like the way to win the Governor's support.

Read the agenda item carefully and then put the meeting reported in context with other reports that were made in the media and by TVT at the end of the legislative session.

Recall that the day after this meeting apparently took place things changed significantly. Senator Patricia Wiggins, the author of SB 157 (the vehicle by which the Barwest gaming Compacts were to have cruised through the approval process), gutted the bill -- she abandoned any hopes of getting the Compacts through the legislature more than 10 days before the Compacts' deadline extensions were set to expire.

It's also interesting that rather than publish the agenda on Thursday, it was posted after it was feasible to contact the Governor's office on Friday for a response or reaction to the Mayor's characterization of the meeting.

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